Deaths have been reported from 40 cities in Myanmar.
NE NOW NEWS: Over 100 protestors were shot dead by armed forces in Myanmar on Saturday.
This bloodshed by the Myanmar armed forces comes on the Country’s Armed Forces Day.
Myanmar’s military resorted to “shoot to kill” protestors on Saturday as thousands of anti-coup protestors took to the Country’s streets.
“Today is a day of shame for the armed forces,” Sasa, a spokesman for CRPH, an anti-junta group set up by deposed lawmakers, told an online forum.
“The military generals are celebrating Armed Forces Day after they just killed more than 300 innocent civilians,” Sasa said.
Apart from those killed in police shootout, scores of protestors sustained grievous injuries.
Heart breaking images of a one-year-old baby in Thamine in Yangon city of Myanmar are doing the rounds in social media.
The toddler was shot in the eye with rubber bullet as he was playing by the coup regime’s armed forces on “bloody Saturday”.
A 13-year-old girl was killed in Mandalay region’s Meikhtila on Saturday during a crackdown on an anti-coup rally.
Over 100 protestors shot dead by Myanmar armed forces on ‘day of shame’, UN ‘horrified’ 1In another incident, a 14-years-old boy was killed after being shot in the head by Myanmar security forces when he was playing inside a Railway Compound.
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One of the victims who died on Saturday is 18-years-old Aung Zin Phyo, a local futsal club goalkeeper in Myanmar’s Mandalay city.
He also volunteered at Intensive Care Unit of the Mandalay AYA Center during COVID-19 second wave.
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Shots were also fired outside the US Embassy in Myanmar
United States ambassador to Myanmar Thomas Vadja has said that killing unarmed civilians including children is horrifying.
“Such actions by security forces are not that of professional military or police. Their role is to protect citizens,” US ambassador to Myanmar – Thomas Vadja said.
The United States ambassador to Myanmar Thomas Vadja further urged Myanmar’s military to immediately stop violence.
“Security forces are murdering unarmed civilians, including children, the very people they swore to protect,” the US Embassy said.
